Resilience of Forest Ecosystems and its Influencing Factors

Ecosystem resilience as a key target of the sustainable development of forest resource. Diagnosis of ecosytem resilience is an important premise for maintaining the sustainable development of the ecosytem and socio-economic system. But researches on ecosytem resilience still lingered on its definition and case studies, there have been only few researches on its quantitative measurement so far. It is a hopeful method to quantitatively measure forest ecosytem resilience with its influencing factors, but there has been fewer researches. this paper has first reviewed the development of the definition of ecosystem resilience and discussed its current measurement methods. Next, the recorded influencing factors of ecosystem resilience were illustrated and finally the further research directions were discussed. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Conference ESIAT2011 Organization Committee.